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That doesn’t imply cloud computing is a hard requirement, just that a server (might be) a requirement.
In a different universe where the cloud / SAAS never took over the market, Cat-GTPurr could be distributed on mail order Blu-Ray disks or (in the worst case) a spinning drive or two, or downloaded once via bittorrent; and then hosted locally. The cost of such a distribution would be a rounding error for most big tech companies.
Sloppy LLM programming? Never!
In completely unrelated news I’ve been staring at this spinner icon for the past five minutes after asking an LLM to output nothing at all: